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--- game_prototyping [2008-07-17 12:27] – 217.18.21.2
+++ game_prototyping [2008-07-18 08:29] – 81.188.78.24
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-=== Tools for rapid prototyping of games ===
+==== Tools for rapid prototyping of games ====
 Good things for prototype systems:
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   * Ease of moving to a production engine
-== Experimental gameplay ==
+==== Experimental gameplay ====
 Making games with little time, people or costs -> http://www.experimentalgameplay.com/
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 </blockquote>
-== Online games ==
+==== Online games ====
+Eg: [[plant game]]
 Advantages:
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 haxe (compiles to swf/js/...) -> [[http://haxe.org/]]
-== 3D engine based games ==
+...?
+==== 3D engine based games ====
 Advantages:
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 PyGame -> http://www.pygame.org/news.html
-Mainly sprite based examples, there are some 3D games, but most seem to involve calling opengl commands wrapped in python, rather than a complete entity model (I might be wrong these days tho).
+Mainly sprite based examples, there are some 3D games, but most seem to involve calling opengl commands wrapped in python, rather than a nice high level entity model (I might be wrong these days tho).
 Panda3d -> http://panda3d.org/
-Free software python based game engine for windows & linux. Look good, need to try it out.
+Free software python based game engine for windows & linux from Carnegie Mellon. Looks really good.
+some more notes can be found in the [[game engine]] node
-== Old School ==
+==== Old School ====
 Blitz Basic -> http://www.blitzbasic.com/ who make Blitz3D -> http://www.blitzbasic.com/Products/blitz3d.php
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 Lots of games written in this, very popular in the indy game dev scene.
-== Costly ==
+==== Costly ====
 Virtools -> http://www.virtools.com/